7 Jan
2018
7 Jan
'18
11:51 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8:15 AM, Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
Patches have to be in Linus's tree before they can be accepted into any stable kernel release, please read: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html for the rules of all of this.
I was hoping rules could be bent a bit, since this is a single device ID, and the timing (both in the -rc cycle and with KPTI) makes it particularly awkward O:)
I'll take no for an answer, but I thought I would at least raise the comment.